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YouTube leading purchase of popular game broadcasting service
Read More »Google commits to $1bn purchase of Twitch – report
Google is finalizing a $1bn deal to acquire streaming video network Twitch, a new report claims. Games Beat cites sources familiar with the matter,” who state that the purchase is official. Reports from earlier this year also claimed the deal was in the works, but still at an early stage.” …
Read More »Twitch announces ‘Host Mode’; offers TV-like programming
Twitch has announced a new feature which allows users to host other live streams on their own channel. While using ‘Host Mode’, a channel owner can embed any other channel’s broadcast directly in their own Twitch feed – for example, while they are not streaming themselves. The feature should allow …
Read More »London Games Conference: Buzzfeed, Twitch, Gamer Network and Ubisoft lead the way
The London Games Conference returns on Wednesday November 19th – with a clutch of high profile brands already involved. Sessions already confirmed come from Buzzfeed, Twitch, Gamer Network and Ubisoft – they will respectively draw on their experiences with social content, lifestreams and video, events and post-release customer service. Event …
Read More »Summer Games Done Quick raises $700k for Doctors Without Borders
Last week’s online speed run fundraising event Summer Games Done Quick received $713k in donations, organizers Speed Demos Archive have announced. The event’s selected charity, Doctors Without Borders, will receive 100 per cent of the proceeds. SGDQ was just the latest in the budding Games Done Quick campaign, a series …
Read More »The Games Media vs E3
The world’s video games press are now back from E3 with jet lag, hangoversand sore fingers. But what did they think of this year’s show? And with so many publishers and platform holders using Twitch and the like to go direct to the consumers, what role did the media really …
Read More »E3 2014 claims Twitch records with 5.9m unique daily viewers
And you thought E3 was no longer relevant? Twitch has revealed that E3 2014 set a new sitewide viewership record for the service with 5.9m unique daily viewers logging on to watch the event. At its peak 405,029 people were watching Twitch’s E3 livestream on day one. Over the course …
Read More »Reggie: No Twitch streaming for Wii U as streaming gameplay ‘isn’t fun’
After a week of what has been the best PR it has received in years, Nintendo has closed E3 with a bit of a howler. When asked by Polygon if Twitch streaming is something Nintendo might add to Wii U, American boss Reggie Fils-Aime has said watching streamed gameplay isn’t …
Read More »Twitch adds audio-only mode to iOS app
Video streaming service Twitch has added a new audio-only feature to its iOS app, the company has revealed. According to a new Twitch blog post, the new mode allows Apple device owners to continue listening to the audio feed of a stream, including when the app has been minimized or …
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